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Meaning of "cafard" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CAFARD

From French, literally: cockroach, hypocrite.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CAFARD

cafard  [French] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CAFARD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cafard is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CAFARD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of cafard in the English dictionary

The definition of cafard in the dictionary is a feeling of severe depression.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CAFARD


aubade
French
auberge
French
boudin
French
chanteuse
French
coquille
French
entente
French
entremets
French
Fauve
French
flacon
French
longueur
French
mondaine
French
monsieur
French
poussin
French
quinze
French
remblai
French
verlan
French

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CAFARD

caestus
caesura
caesurae
caesural
caesuric
Caetano
CAF
cafeteria
cafetiere
cafetorium
caff
caffein
caffeinated
caffeine
caffeinic
caffeinism
caffeism
caffila
caftan
caftaned

WORDS THAT END LIKE CAFARD

award
Bernard
board
bulletin board
card
credit card
Edward
fard
forward
guard
hard
heard
Howard
in this regard
keyboard
MasterCard
Richard
standard
toward
yard

Synonyms and antonyms of cafard in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cafard» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CAFARD

Find out the translation of cafard to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cafard from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cafard» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

cafard
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cafard
570 millions of speakers

English

cafard
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cafard
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

cafard
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Cafard
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cafard
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

cafard
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cafard
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kafe
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

cafard
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

cafard
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

cafard
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cafeteria
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

cafard
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உளப்பிணி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॅफर्ड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cafard
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cafard
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cafard
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Cafard
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cafard
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

cafard
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cafard
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cafard
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cafard
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cafard

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CAFARD»

The term «cafard» is normally little used and occupies the 112.892 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CAFARD» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cafard» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cafard» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cafard

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAFARD»

Discover the use of cafard in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cafard and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Surregional Explorations
Philosopher, activist, artist Max Cafard, has been steadily working his way through critiques of Anarchism, Surrealism, Situationism, Media, Cinema, and Regionalism, to arrive to his own fascinating and practicable practice of the ...
Max Cafard, 2012
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Heuretics: The Logic of Invention
The conditions of the blockhouses or forts in the desert created an atmosphere of the cafard, "a collective name for all the inconceivable stupidities, excesses and crimes which tormented nerves can commit" — murder, suicide, mutiny, ...
Gregory L. Ulmer, 1994
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'Inquietude' in the Work of Pierre Mac Orlan
La bagarre, la désertion et la blague poussée jusqu'à la tragédie sont les formes les plus communes du cafard ambulatoire.'"" What is important to underline is that Mac Orlan consistently defines 'le cafard' in literary terms. The use of the ...
Roger W. Baines, 2000
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Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s
Part nostalgia for the lost homeland and part self'pity for the uphill struggles of an alien environment, le cafard names the particular strain of melancholia that afflicts Westerners forced to stick it out in a foreign land without any real hope of ...
Colleen Kennedy-Karpat, 2013
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Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919–1939: White Blind ...
Heart. of. Darkness,. Heart. of. Light. La. Mission. Civilizatrice. and. Le. Cafard. in. L'Atlantide. The French imperial realm in Africa encompassed the arid and desert regions of the Maghreb, Sahara, and Sahel. Gleaming sun and sand rather ...
David Henry Slavin, 2001
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France and "Indochina": Cultural Representations
Of. Le. Cafard. and. Other. Tropical. Threats: Disease and White Colonial Culture in Indochina Michael G. Vann In both contemporary historical accounts and the memories of popular culture, the colonial experience was replete with numerous  ...
Kathryn Robson, Jennifer Yee, 2005
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1 a day French Expressions: French Expressions and Idioms
JOUR 3 Avoir le cafard: to be down in the dumps Rien que d'y penser, ça me donne le cafard:just thinking about it andl feel depressed! Mon travail me fout le cafard: My job makes me depressed. Meaning: "Un cafard" is 'a cockroach', you can ...
Pascal d'Hervé, 2013
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Ténèbres 2012
Ecœu- rés, nous assistons au châtiment du Cafard. La tortionnaire est assise sur une chaise. Debout devant elle, le Ca- fard lui tourne le dos, les bras écartés comme des ailes. Un lien de cuir pend à chaque poignet et, au bout de ce lien, il y a ...
Domis Benoît
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Up Through an Empty House of Stars
e.g. there's "space cafard", a dread claustrophobia which has little effect on astronauts in their roomy capsules but strikes with full and crippling force when you're cooped up in a few score cubic miles of space colony. This occupational hazard ...
David Langford, 2003
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Thirteen-card Spread
I looked at le Cafard, back at Coco. 'Do you want le Cafard with us?' 'No. But you stay, Sir Jack.' He said "Sir Jack" much better than le Cafard could. I smiled at him and thanked le Cafard, who nodded, and hurried off with a wave and a grin.
James Munro, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAFARD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cafard is used in the context of the following news items.
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Isabelle Richer a une pneumonie
«Petit coup de cafard aujourd'hui. Ça stagne. La fièvre persiste à cause de cette foutue pneumonie», a écrit la sœur d'Isabelle Richer dans un ... «Le Journal de Montréal, Jul 15»
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Run amok with Wiki Wormhole's look at, well, running amok
This is a worldwide phenomenon, existing in Old Norse writing (where the term “berserker” originates), Polynesia (cafard or cathard), Puerto ... «A.V. Club Milwaukee, Jun 15»
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Blaise Compaoré doit être neutralisé pour le bonheur des Burkinabè …
Compaore:Camer.be Pourquoi l'Afrique tourne-t-elle sur place et végète tel un cafard qui se retrouve sur le dos sur une surface bien plate et ... «camer.be, Jun 15»
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Une guêpe redoutable capable de transformer ses proies en zombies
Baptisée "Ampulex dementor", la guêpe présente une technique d'attaque particulièrement redoutable. Elle pique deux fois sa proie, le cafard ... «Maxisciences, Jun 15»
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Un cafard robot vraiment véloce
Le petit robot inspiré du cafard X2-VelociRoACH peut avancer à la vitesse de 18 km/h. Getty Images/Darlyne A. Murawski. «RFI, May 15»
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Saul Bellow and His Complicated Love Life
Marx, Trotsky, Sartre, cafard,**nausée, alienation, existential woe, the Void, et cetera: all this he canceled and cursed. From here on he would commit himself to ... «Vanity Fair, Apr 15»
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'Supernatural': Never saw that coming
He is down to get his cafard on. He tells Dean the movie is playing in Wichita, so he'll be gone overnight. “Well, I trust you. Make good choices.”. «seattlepi.com, Apr 15»
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Cartoon Movie: a springboard for European animation films
"Cafard" is a Belgian, French and Dutch co-production which is set during World War One and is due to be screened at this year's Cannes Film ... «euronews, Apr 15»
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And the Cannes line-up is…?
Flemish films that may be ready in time for a slot include include Jan Bultheel's World War One feature animation Cafard, Lenny van ... «Screen International, Mar 15»
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Booba lâche des exclus avec des punchlines inédites de DUC !
... dès que j'allume il y a un cafard en toi….#puzzledemotsetdepensées#laliassenoirepourtouslesimposteurs #segpaunited#DUC #2015 #0€ ». «13OR-du-hiphop, Mar 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Cafard [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cafard>. May 2024 ».
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